5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

POCHO

POCHO is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 81.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Mexican-American, especially one regarded by Mexicans as being assimilated into mainstream American culture, often implying limited to no fluency in Spanish and disconnection from Mexican culture.

Noun

Spanglish

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How POCHO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POCHO as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 59.6% of games, misses completely in 40.4%, and leaves about 446 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,901 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__H_ P in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TRONE CRANE TARSE TALER STALE
Words starting with P Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.61 Entropy (bits)
446 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POCHO performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,901 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POCHO ranks #11,901 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
311
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
22%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

952
192
170
152
147
117
85
77
41
29
28
28
27
27
26
20
19
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17
17
14
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10
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6
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POCHO:

40% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

40.4% →
RAILE 6.22 bits
8.1% →
TRONE 5.27 bits
7.2% →
CRANE 5.59 bits
6.4% →
TARSE 5.88 bits
6.2% →
TALER 4.62 bits
5.0% →
STALE 5.44 bits
3.6% →
IRATE 5.02 bits
3.3% →
LIANE 4.58 bits
1.7% →
SLANT 4.21 bits
1.2% →
MATEY 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for POCHO; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

P3O1C3H4O1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.